The Village Voice, June 11th, 2002
CLOSE-UP ON: ST. GEORGE
When Allen Ginsberg wrote in Howl that he saw the best minds of his generation and that they wailed, he added that "the Staten Island ferry also wailed." Any Staten Island expat worth her saltwater tears can tell you about the integral relationship of the ferry-- boat to the city, and of the peculiarly beautiful experience of spending at least 40 minutes at sea each day. Nowhere on the island is this amphibious life more apparent than in St. George, which houses the ferry terminal and has the waterfront as two of its hazy boundaries. The neighborhood shows off its isla...
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